Sheher, Prakriti, Devi

Riffing on the interwoven relationship between cities, the natural environment and the sacred, this show presents work by 12 artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces.

Sheher, Prakriti, Devi comes from the Hindustani terms for ‘city’, ‘nature’ and ‘deity’. The exhibition germinates from curator Gauri Gill’s own ongoing documentation of urban and semi-urban spaces in India; viewers are invited to regard ecology as an overlap of cultural, natural and spiritual domains – a world where built and natural structures are rendered porous by termites, gates open to unfinished roads, historical ruins become homes to migratory birds while pigeons become occupants of post-colonial houses, locusts bear witness to contemporary terrors and forests manifest as spirit sisters.

In this show are works by Chamba Rumal, Chiara Camoni, Gauri Gill, Ladhki Devi, Mariam Suhail, Meera Mukherjee, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Rashmi Kaleka, Shefalee Jain, Sukanya Ghosh, Vinnie Gill and Yoshiko Crow.

To 1 June.

Above: Chamba Rumal, Tara. From the series Das Mahavidya (Ten Great Wisdoms)